For content creators who leverage the regulatory requirements of the GDPR to refine their customer data-gathering processes and create—or rebuild—trust that such data will be used only to the customer's benefit, the byproduct should be more satisfied, more trusting, and more engaged customers. And that's a worthy goal on either side of the Atlantic.

Content Management

Huddle, a provider of intercompany collaboration in the cloud, is launching its BlackBerry application. Huddle's BlackBerry app gives people full access to document sharing, project tasks, discussions, and whiteboards, as well as a complete view of the user's personalized dashboard

In a world where we can instant message with a friend halfway across the world at any time of day, while browsing his latest vacation photos, it seems odd that communicating with someone in our own office can often feel so troublesome. Enter eIntranet from Ektron, which combines social software and web content management in one enterprise application.

IBM's Lotus messaging and collaboration software will be coming to the world's hottest new mobile gadget: the Apple iPad. Lotus Notes customers can download the new software, IBM Lotus Notes Traveler, for no charge, and get two-way, over-the-air synchronization of email, calendar, and contact between Lotus Domino servers and mobile devices, including the iPad

Sitrof Technologies and Content Circles announced DocExchange, a secure peer-to-peer document exchange platform. Content Circles and Sitrof collaborated on the project, with each company contributing technology and software.

Alfresco announced the availability of Alfresco Migration Services, a service that simplifies content migration from legacy and proprietary solutions to Alfresco ECM. The packaged solution will enable organizations to easily migrate their existing ECM solutions to Alfresco ECM from a variety of other systems, with Documentum and SharePoint being available migration options at release.

Cabinet NG (CNG), a provider of document management and workflow software, announced the availability of the latest version of CNG-WEB, a module that provides a secure web-browser interface to CNG-SAFE. Version 6.2 of CNG-WEb gives users access to workflow and several other new capabilities to the browser based experience.

Web-based productivity suite Zoho announced the launch of unified search for its full suite of applications, eliminating the need to search individually in each of the suite's several applications. The unified search functionality allows users to search the entirety of the Zoho suite with a single search query, letting companies find content regardless of whether it resides in Zoho Mail, Docs, Writer, Sheet, Show, Notebook, or any of the other Zoho apps.

Open Text Corporation, a provider of ECM software, announced an expanded family of social media offerings that will enable businesses to securely apply the value of social media to solve core business challenges, such as improving customer engagement or promoting team productivity.

Axceler, a provider of administration software for Microsoft SharePoint, acquired echoTechnology, a company that provides SharePoint migration services. The deal was made with an eye toward providing customers with both administration and migration services, two important considerations as the market moves toward SharePoint 2010.

Real Story Group, formerly CMS Watch, announced a set of new research findings that demonstrate that digital asset management vendors have begun incorporating increasingly advanced features into their offerings in order to compete with web content management and document management vendors that have begun offering partial DAM features in their own software.

Kentico Software announced the release of Kentico CMS for ASP.NET version 5.5, a new version of its CMS software that provides full support for Visual Studio 2010 and the Microsoft .NET Framework 4. Kentico CMS 5.5 will also include support for mobile websites, and both Facebook Connect and OpenID authentication, allowing users to more easily log into websites without the need to remember individual logins and passwords.

Oracle announced the acquisition of the intellectual property assets of Market2Lead, a provider of demand generation and marketing automation software. Market2Lead's technology helps companies improve demand generation to increase sales and marketing effectiveness. Oracle announced that it plans to integrate Market2Lead's technology into Oracle CRM applications.

coAction.com, a provider of advanced business collaboration software, is launching an integrated on-demand collaboration solution designed to support multiple business processes, including finance, sales, and customer service. The service uses the SaaS model to speed delivery of a rich desktop user interface that gives users access to multiple ready-to-use business tools from a single location.

MIE Solutions unveiled a new business management and collaboration tool, MIE Dashboard. The new product is designed to allow workers within a company to share information, collaborate, chat, and manage files. Dashboard can be used in organizations with users that number in the thousands.

A new link organization platform, Kbucket, is now in beta. Kbucket allows researchers and information professionals the ability to categorize, comment, and tag thousands of links and publish the result to a Kbucket page.

Nordic River, a developer of document collaboration tools, released its TextFlow application for the Google Apps Marketplace. TextFlow, positioned as an alternative for Microsoft Office's track changes, document comparison, and review functions, integrates with Google Documents and enables users to view, evaluate, and decide upon each contributor's edits to a Google Document.

The new version HyperOffice is now available to small and medium business (SMB) clients, the company announced. HyperOffice, a cloud-based messaging and collaboration suite, had been in beta for 6 months. This version was rebuilt leveraging Ajax and boasts improvements in performance, scalability and security.

DocuLex, creators of content management software, announced the addition of customized business process and collaborative workflow capability to DocuLex Archive Studio's just released WebSearch version 4.2. The program features a new, intelligent "decision engine" that organizes project information, and orchestrates flow to each staffer involved.